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Firefox 125 Released: Here's What's New and Improved

debugpointnews.com Firefox 125 Released: Here's What's New and Improved

Firefox 125 introduces text highlighting in PDFs, enhanced Firefox View, URL clipboard navigation, AV1 codec support, and multiple security updates.

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I searched for the keywords "vert" and "tabs" and found nothing.
- its in the works, they have confirmed that vertical tabs are coming
  
  Right after HL3 will be released.
- Sidebery is an excellent extension for that. I really doubt Mozilla is going to make one as good as that.
  
  I used Sideberry for a while, but I tried out one called Tab Stash and I think it's much better overall than Sideberry personally
  
  Do you have experience with tree style tabs extensions also?
  
  Is there an extension to drag out tabs seamlessly into another window like you can do with chromium.
- It's in the nightly builds, although when they announced it they (bizarrely) received a lot of hate for it, so I'm not sure they'll continue development.
  
  Why would people hate on them for adding a commonly requested feature?
- You should probably open an issue about this
  
  It is widely talked about, I'm sure someone has.
- Why? Why not an extra bar like all other browsers? I suppose that is possible too? But idk.
  I would really like to get some shortcuts for some sites.
  Also, I think tab groups are way more important. SimpleTabGroups is constantly losing its state, containers, pinned bookmarks, its a total pain.
  
  Why?
  Because It is better for reading on websites. Normally there is just a ton of space to the sides of the text, and it would make more sense to actually use it.
  Why not an extra bar like all other browsers?
  What... do you mean? They have the top bar like other browsers. A lot of other browsers have vertical tabs now too.
  I would really like to get some shortcuts for some sites.
  Add them then?
  Also, I think tab groups are way more important.
  I never said they aren't. Also, they do have container tabs, they just hide it in about:config.

Another security feature added is the blocking of downloading files from URLs that are on lists of potentially dangerous content.
Yeah, I'm not sure blocking HTTP downloads by default is a good idea, I mean many offices probably have some internal legacy HTTP only sites that nobody dares to touch, that are perfectly safe being HTTP (if you have hackers inside your network a simple intranet site spoofing is your least problem), and disabling this security option might have a lot of wider repercussions
- I get it, but you're arguing in favour of negligent IT. If nobody dares to touch something, it is a liability.
  
  I would say he's arguing in favour of practicality
- Edge has started doing that too, whenever I download something from my Home Assistant instance while at home I have to rightclick and say that I really want to download it.
  As long as such an option is available its not too bad.
  
  It's not just about that, people will be disabling the feature that is potentially beneficial to their security, disabling http downloads from http sites is just an extension of blocking http downloads from https sites

Wake me up when the popover API is in. Might be next version, nice!

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